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OSGOOD, Frances Sargent, author, was born in Boston. JIass.. June l'*, 1811; daujrhter of Joseph Locke. She became aciiuaiiitoil with Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, editor of the Juvenile Miscelkunj, and contributed articles and poems to that and other periodicals under the pen-name " Florence," and also edited the Ladies' Compan- ion for a short time. She was married in ISJio to Samuel Stillman Osgood (1808-1850), an artist; accompanied him to England, and while there published two of her Ixxiks and contril)Uted to English majjazines. They returned to Boston in 1840, and shortly afterward settled in New York city, where she spent nearly all the remainder of her life. She issued while in London: The Casket of Fate (1838); A Wreath of Wild Floicers from Xew England (1839), and wrote at the re- quest of James Sheridan Knowles, a play T7te Happy Release, or the Trinmpli of Love. In New York she issued: Poetry of Floicers and Flowers of Poetry (1841); The Snowdrop, a book for chil- dren (1841); Poems (1846), and in Philadelphia, Hie Floral Offering (1847). An illustrated edition of Poems appeared in 1849; a 16mo edition in 1861; a complete edition of her poems in 1850; Labor is Prayer, Rufus W. Griswold wrote a biographical sketch for a Memorial issued in 1850. She died in Hingham. Mass., May 12, 1850.

OSGOOD, Howard, educator, was born at Magnolia plantation, Plaquemine, La., Jan. 4, 1831; son of Isaac and Jane Rebecca (Hall) Os- good; grandson of Timothy and Sarah (Farnham) Osgood, and a descendant of John Osgood, And- over, Mass., 1642, He was a student at Harvard college, 1846-49. He was married in 1853 to Caroline Townsend Lawrence, who died in 1898. He was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1856; was pastor at Flushing, N.Y., 1856-58; traveled and studied in Europe, 1858-59; was pastor in New York city, 1860-65, and professor of Hebrew in Crozier Theological seminary, Chester, Pa., 1868-73, and in Rochester Tlieological seminary, 1875-1900. The degree of A.B. was conferred on him by Harvard in 1858, of D.D., by Brown in 1868, and of LL.D. by the College of New-Jersey, Princeton, in 1894. He served on the American committee on Bible revision, prepared the intro- duction for the Schaff-Lange Commentary, and is the author of numerous articles published in the Baptist Review, Biblotheca Sacra and Presbyter- ian and Reformed Review.

OSGOOD, James Ripley, publisher, was born in Fryeburg, Maine, Ft- b. 22, 1836; son of Col. Edward Louis (1806-1804) and Abby R. (Dana) Osgood; grandson of Capt. James (1757-1815) and Abigail (Evans) Osgood, and a descend:) nt tin-ough Samuel, James. Samuel and Capt. John from John Osgood, the immigrant. He was grad- uated from Bowdoin. A.B.. 1854. A.M.. 1857; was

a clerk for Ticknor & Fields, publishers, at the Old Corner Book store, Boston, Mass., 1855-64; member of the firm, 1864-09; of the firm Fields, Osgood & Co., 1869-71; James R. Osgood & Co., 1871-78; Houghton, Osgood & Co., 1878-80; James R. Osgood & Co., 1880-85; London agent for Harper & Brothers, 1885-90, and of the house of O.sgood, Mcllvaine & Co., London, 1890-92. He was elected a member of the Century association, New York city, in 18G6. He never married. His sister, Katharine Putnam Osgood, born May 25, 1842, was the author of: Driving Home the Cows and other poems. He died in London, England, May 18, 1892.

OSGOOD, Samuel, delegate and postrnaster- general, was born in Andover, Mass., Feb. 3, 1748; third son of Capt. Peter and Sarah (John- son) Osgood; grandson of Timothy and Maiy (Russell) Osgood; great-grandson of Timothy and Deborah (Poor) Osgood; greats-grandson of John and Mary (Clements) Osgood; and great-- grandson of John and Sarah Osgood, who came from Wherwell, Hampshire, England, to Massa- chusetts, about 1637-38, sojourned at Ipswich, and settled at Newburj'. John Osgood was admitted a freeman. May 23, 1637, and about 1645 removed to Andover, Mass., where he died, Oct. 24, 1651, leaving sons: John, born 1630, and Stephen, born 1638. Samuel Osgood was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1770, A.M., 1773, and studied theology, but abandoned it to join his brother Peter in business. He was a delegate to the Essex county convention in 1774; was a representative in the colonial legislature and served on many important committees in the provincial congress. He organized among his neighbors a company of minutemen and was made captain. On hearing of the conflict he marched to Lexington, and thence to Cambridge, where he joined the Continental army and was appointed aide-de-camp to Gen. Artemas Ward, serving, 1775-76. He was offered the command of a regiment in February, 1776, but resigned from the army to become a member of the Provisional congress of Massachusetts which body made him a member of the board of war. He was a delegate to the state constitutional conven- tion of 1779 and a member of the committee to frame the constitution. He was elected the first senator from Essex county in the Massachusetts legislature in 1780, and was a delegate to the Continental congre.ss. 1780-84, where he served on the board of war, wMnning the confidence and esteem of General Washington. He was the first commissioner of the U.S. treasury, 178.5-89, and first postmaster-general of the United States, 1789-91. the government being conducted in New York city at that time. He rosigned the post- master-generalship on the removal of the national